§ 80-63. Records to be kept of sales and slaughter.
§80‑63. Records to be kept of sales and slaughter.
Persons or agents selling orbartering or exchanging branded livestock in the State of North Carolina shallprovide the purchaser or new owner with a bill of sale showing a reasonablefacsimile of the brand on any and all livestock having a brand as defined inthis Article. Such bills of sale shall be prima facie evidence of transfer ofownership of branded livestock. Slaughter facilities in the State of NorthCarolina shall affix to their normal records of receipt of livestock areasonable facsimile of the brand on any branded livestock received by them.Such records shall be maintained for at least 12 months. (1935,c. 232, ss. 8, 9; 1975, c. 261, s. 1.)